>> All right. Jason Stein, thank you very much.
>> My pleasure. Thank you. >> Campaigns for governor
ahead of the August primary. Head into high gear with
some Democrats in the field getting a boost after the
party's state convention. A straw poll of party
activists put Lieutenant Governor Sarah Rodriguez on
top with state Representative Francesca
Hong in second and state Senator Kelda Roys coming
in third. Here's a glimpse of candidates speeches at
the convention. >> Does the job I'm asking
you for starts with showing up and then standing up.
Here's what I hear out there. Our neighbors are
scared. They are angry because even if they are
doing everything right, they cannot make ends meet.
They work hard and want a paycheck that covers the
rent or mortgage before it's gone. They need a
health insurance premium that they can afford. So
when they get sick, they have the care that they
need. They need public schools that are fully
funded for their kids so they don't have to go to
referendum. >> We've seen this before
in Wisconsin. Scott Walker ran this con for eight
years. Divide and conquer got the public sector
hollow out schools, attack workers and treat
government like the enemy. When Tony Evers asked me to
serve as his top cabinet official, we inherited a
mess. Depleted reserves, structural deficits,
teachers, state employees, and working people who had
been treated like a punching bag for eight
years. So we rolled up our sleeves and we got to work.
We constructed responsible budgets that returned us to
Wisconsin values. >> I do want to be honest,
because as I travel, people always ask me, David, can a
Black candidate become governor? Hell yeah. If
it's a candidate with a track record of delivering
results and winning and not just talking about them?
Yes. If it's a candidate that has a plan that's
built on proven public policy, not whatever the
latest poll says, it's popular, then yes, the
answer is simple, y'all. Yes. And I am that
candidate. I've built a strong coalition in the
state's largest county while earning support from
our rural, suburban urban communities alike.
>> I am running for governor to raise wages,
lower costs, deliver great public schools, and protect
our freedoms from this authoritarian regime. We
will lower the cost of the biggest ticket items, from
housing to health care, child care to utilities. I
don't just have bullet points, I have bills. I
don't just have social posts, I have plans. And we
know this is possible because we've done it
before, right? As the executive director of NARAL
Pro-Choice Wisconsin, I helped pass the first
pro-choice law in 30 years through an anti-choice
Republican Assembly. >> We have been failed by
the status quo for far too long. And it's not just
enough to be anti-Trump. It's not enough to just be
a Democrat. If you're going to cave to corporate
interests, we need a governor who rejects the
Washington way of rampant corruption and corporate
running for governor to do things the Wisconsin way.
That means taxing the rich. That means freezing the
rates. That means keeping our community safe. And in
the AI schemes that rig the system, fully funding our
public schools, passing universal child care, and
delivering health care to every single person in this
state, and standing up to those monopolies that
continue to bankrupt our family farms and raise our
utility bills. I am asking for your support in August,
and I'm asking you to organize with me all the
way through November to take back with me.
>> I am running on a platform of permanent
affordability, not as a slogan. Not as a slogan,
but as a practice. I am the only candidate in this race
who has called for a moratorium on the
construction of AI data centers. I will not meekly
accept the sellout of Wisconsin to millionaires,
billionaires and big tech. I am the only candidate in
this race with a plan for free childcare. I am the
only candidate in this race who has even considered
what AI will do, what it means for our workers and
our civil rights. >> The first thing I had to
do as Secretary of Economic Development was clean up
Foxconn. No problem. I had three children under the
age of two. I know how to clean up a mess. So I
cleaned up Donald Trump and Scott Walker's mess and
saved the state and Wisconsinites billions of
dollars. And then Covid hit. Covid hit. And let me tell
you, that's not a great time to be in charge of the
state's economy. But we rolled up our sleeves and
we got to work. >> On the Republican side,
current seventh congressional U.S.
representative Tom Tiffany got his party's endorsement
in his run for governor at their convention.
>> We're going to take a shovel to waste and fraud.
We're going to root out corruption. And we're going
to bring common sense back to Madison. Because I
refuse to accept failure. I refuse to accept decline,
and I refuse to see the state of Wisconsin fall